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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. “It can be [that they] have 50 petabytes of backups … but it’s in a … facility 30 miles away.…

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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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From Backup to Backdoor: Exploitation of CVE-2022-36537 in R1Soft Server Backup Manager

Fox IT

During a recent incident response case, we found traces of an adversary leveraging ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager software (hereinafter: R1Soft server software). The adversary used it as an initial point of access and as a platform to control downstream systems connected via the R1Soft Backup Agent.

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GUEST ESSAY: Best practices checklists each individual computer user still needs to follow

The Last Watchdog

Use and keep your security software (i.e. We strongly recommend making sure that you use the latest version of the anti-virus software, and for that matter of any software that you are using on your computer. Newest versions come with improved and additional features to enhance software capability. Backup checklist.

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Critical ConnectWise Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Internet-Exposed Servers

Hacker Combat

ConnectWise, a company that makes software for IT management, made an announcement on Friday about updates that address a significant vulnerability. The ConnectWise Recover backup and disaster recovery software (versions 2.9.7 The ConnectWise Recover backup and disaster recovery software (versions 2.9.7

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Top Security Tools & Software for SMBs in 2022

eSecurity Planet

Best SMB Security Tools & Software. Delivers consolidated management of all next-generation firewall (NGFW), software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) , switching and wireless policies from anywhere with a single cloud management and analytics platform. If desired SMBs, can run backups up to four times per day.

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Patch now! Citrix Sharefile joins the list of actively exploited file sharing software

Malwarebytes

It is a cryptographic bug in Citrix ShareFile’s Storage Zones Controller, a.NET web application running under Internet Information Services (IIS). This year, the Cl0p ransomware gang has made extensive use of vulnerabilities in file transfer software. Create offsite, offline backups. Prevent intrusions. Detect intrusions.